Hi Ian.
ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a
trace on the relevant bug report.
If it
Hi Ian,
(dropping the bug in CC, as it has nothing to do with it).
Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 12.27:01, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
is made to disappear
On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 03:27 -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
It seems that Historical Revisionism, of the bad kind, is now in
operation at Debian, in that critical commentary about unapplied patches
is made to disappear down the memory hole, without leaving so much as a
trace on the
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 13:09:30 +0200
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud o...@debian.org wrote:
If it were thought that the criticism was unfair, or inaccurate, then
it could be allowed to remain in place, so that other people might
judge its lack of merit for themselves.
In the case of bug #684128, post
(No need to CC me, I'm subscribed).
Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 15.17:09, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
When read in the context of that particular bug report, I don't see how
it could possibly be any more relevant, since it refers directly to the
discussion above.
I disagree: that mail starts
Didier 'OdyX' Raboud, le Thu 04 Apr 2013 15:45:17 +0200, a écrit :
(No need to CC me, I'm subscribed).
Le jeudi, 4 avril 2013 15.17:09, ian_br...@fastmail.net a écrit :
When read in the context of that particular bug report, I don't see how
it could possibly be any more relevant, since it
On Thu, 4 Apr 2013 15:51:38 +0200
Samuel Thibault sthiba...@debian.org wrote:
I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between Humpty Dumpty and
Alice, which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There
was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that
indicated how
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:16AM -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
I disagree: that mail starts with a chat between Humpty Dumpty and
Alice, which both have nothing to do with the bug at hand. There
was nothing in the subject or the first paragraphs of the text that
indicated how that
ian_br...@fastmail.net, le Thu 04 Apr 2013 08:05:16 -0700, a écrit :
I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking uh, spamassassin
missed killing that spam without reading it all. Only the very end of
the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that
a maintainer
On 04/04/2013 12:05 PM, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
Do you think there is any way that the relevance of posts to a bug
report can be determined, without reference to the context in which they
appear, *all the preceeding discussion*?
So far as I can see, nobody doubts your intentions. But you
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Which is to say, that Humpty-Dumpty's remarks are EXACTLY on point,
especially the part about neither more nor less.
The Debian bug tracking system is not a place for novels, novelettes or
short stories. Going on for lots of paragraphs and having your short
story be much longer than the
On Thu, Apr 04, 2013 at 08:05:16AM -0700, ian_br...@fastmail.net wrote:
hard disk manufacturers, and their Debian apologists
And with that, I welcome you to my permanent blacklist.
It's one thing to engage people in constructive dialogue. It's another to
denigrate them or troll them.
Plonk.
I do remember this mail, and I remember thinking uh, spamassassin
missed killing that spam without reading it all. Only the very end of
the mail doesn't look like spam, there's very little probability that a
maintainer would have gone that far.
*I* did hit my Esc-L mutt macro on that mail,
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